POSTERITY: ITS VERDICTS AND ITS METHODS OR DEMOCRACY A.D. 2100. London, Edinburgh, Oxford: Williams and Norgate, 1897. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-171 [172: blank], original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge untrimmed, black coated endpapers. First edition. "A 'sleeper awakes' piece; the protagonist, on waking in the year 2100, participates in a series of Bellamy-style dialogues which outline the development of the world's society. Emphasis political and sociological; little discussion of technological achievements." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 16. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 22. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 929. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 113. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 115. Bleiler (1948), p. 26. Reginald 11829. Tiny nick to cloth at bottom edge of spine panel, some faint damp staining to cloth, a bright, very good copy. (#96034).
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